slatey

adjective slatier or slatiest

Irish informal slightly mad; crazy

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Examples from the Web for slatey

Historical Examples

There was only slatey void, through which he was going on for ever.
The Trail of the Hawk
Sinclair Lewis
And because that was the year your father bought the whole of Slatey Gap.
Devon Boys
George Manville Fenn
The sky, which from blue had become white, was now turning from white to a slatey grey.
Toilers of the Sea
Victor Hugo
He has a prominent nose, slatey grey eyes and a certain heaviness about the mouth.
Kipps
H. G. Wells
In the adult the brown of the upper plumage assumes a slatey grey hue, and the edgings of lighter colour vanish.
The Art and Practice of Hawking
Edward B. Michell

slatey

Examples from the Web for slatey

Historical Examples

There was only slatey void, through which he was going on for ever.

And because that was the year your father bought the whole of Slatey Gap.

The sky, which from blue had become white, was now turning from white to a slatey grey.

He has a prominent nose, slatey grey eyes and a certain heaviness about the mouth.

In the adult the brown of the upper plumage assumes a slatey grey hue, and the edgings of lighter colour vanish.